iPhone/iPod/iPad News

Within the first 48 hours of the release of iTunes 10, Apple reports that Ping registrations exceeded 1 million new members. If this is true, then over 1/3 of total downloads of the latest rendition of iTunes resulted in a new Ping member. This is very promising news for Apple with the latest entry in the social networking world.
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Musclenerd, of the Dev Team, has reported that it may be possible that comex will release another userland jailbreak, a la jailbreakme.com, for the upcoming iOS4.1. It's also possible that there is a bootrom jailbreak although that would take much more time to release than the userland jailbreak because of the time it will take to perfect the jailbreak, package and release it to the masses.
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Whoever is in charge of Apple UK must be getting an earful from Steve Jobs right about now. In a total gaffe, the UK site reported that iOS4.1 would be released on the 8th of September as can be seen from the screenshot above. Since the snaffu, the site has been update to say "Coming Soon" but not before the screenshot circulated the world!
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When Steve Jobs announced the impending releases of iOS4.1 and 4.2 it was announced that the iPad will finally get iOS4.x support. Reportedly, iOS4.2 will be released sometime in November and will include the iPad support. Finally Apple will have brought all the new devices in line with the latest firmware releases.
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At the keynote address today by Steve Jobs, Apple announed the upcoming release of iOS4.1 and 4.2 (coming sometime in November). The release of iOS4.1 will supposedly resolve some of the most pesky issues of late such as the proximity sensor issues, Bluetooth issues and the degraded performance issues of iOS4.x running on the iPhone 3G.
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Apple revealed it's new Apple TV device and although it's much smaller than it's predecessor, it packs a big punch. This streaming-only device is only 1/4 the size of the previous model. It also has it's own built-in power supply, ethernet connection, 802.11n wireless and HDMI.
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Apple went backwards in time with the iPod Shuffle update. They brought back the buttons (that so many of us missed) and made it even smaller than the previous version of similar design. It also comes in a decent array of colors to suit anyone.
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It was bound to happen sooner or later. Another of Apple's signature products, the iPod Nano, has now followed the iPod and gone "touch." But not only has it gone "touch" but it has gone "multitouch." Apple has gotten rid of the click wheel and surprisingly gotten rid of the camera as well. What is left is definitely a thing of beauty!
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Today Apple announced the latest generation iPod Touch 4th generation. This has to be the iPod that is the closest to being an iPhone than any other generation iPod Touch, without the phone capabilities. It's much thinner than the original, includes the Retina display, has the Apple A4 chip, front and back cameras with Facetime support and 3-axis gyroscope.
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The cat and mouse game between the Dev Team and Apple has always been an interesting one. Apple releases their locked-down firmware and the Dev Team releases the key! This has been going on since June of 2007 and there doesn't seem to be an end. That's a good thing for us!
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Read an article on an Australian news website (The Age which took the article from Mashable.com) which I`ll post below...but it has since been removed for whatever reason.

It's about a patent Apple applied for that will allow it to kill off jailbroken iphones under the pretense of protecting the user. The quote below virtually somes up the article.

"In other words, the system described in the patent allow Apple to effectively kill jailbroken devices under the guise of protecting customers from theft, since it may not be able to determine whether a device has been stolen or if it is being willingly jailbroken by users."
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According to PC World, Apple will be launching a smaller 7" iPad in time for the holidays. I actually find this intriguing because the current model seems to be just a little bit large to carry around and be "portable". No info on specs are available as of yet but we can assume it will be similar to the current iPad.
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A manager for Apple apparently has been selling secret proprietary information to at least 6 Chinese companies that supply products to Apple. He collected over $1 million from these companies and had the funds deposited into an account in his wife's name.

Paul Shin Devine was indicted on charges of wire fraud, money laundering and unlawful monetary transactions. Apple also named him in a civil suit that included charges of racketeering.

From the Wall Street Journal:
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Apple has released iOS 4.0.2 for iPhone (and 3.2.2 for iPad) which patches the PDF exploit previously discovered. As with any update, please do NOT update to this version if you are jailbroken and/or unlocked. This will break each one. This update does not carry any new features so there's no worry about jumping on it so quickly. Just wait for the Dev Team to discover a solution.
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Yes, the Spokewoman from Apple confirmed to CNET that they already have a patch for the new exploit from the DevTeam.
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Here it is folks! The mother of all jailbreaks! The jailbreak we've all been waiting for!

If you haven't heard, the second iteration of jailbreakme.com was released a little over an hour ago. Dubbed "JailbreakMe 2.0" it will jailbreak pretty much all devices including the iPhone 3G running iOS 4.0, 4.0.1 and 3.2.1. It's been a while since we've seen a browser based jailbreak like the original JailbreakMe.com but for those of us on iPhone 4, we're just glad to see a jailbreak!
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The Library of Congress has deemed that jailbreaking your iPhone in order to install applications not approved by Apple and/or to unlock is legal under new rules announced today.
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Jay Freeman, also known as saurik in the iPhone hacking world, recently spoke to Make It Work about the upcoming iPhone 4 jailbreak. Although he says the release of the jailbreak is not too far off, he could not give an exact date of release. Jay has contact with several members of the Dev Team but is not directly involved in its development.

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If you have an iPhone 3G or iPod Touch 2G and it's jailbroken, you may have recently seen the screen above when you entered Cydia. Don't worry, it wasn't an error by the Cydia server. It is actually requesting to save your SHSH files as it does with the iPhone 3GS and iPod Touch 3G.
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